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@YureMorte It might be one of a few things:

1.A) One of you, (or both), have a privacy setting that limits who can add you as a friend.

1.B) I'm not sure about the Switch, but on Xbox, there's a privacy setting under "Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 devices Online Safety", tittled "You can play with people outside of Xbox Live". If this is set to "block", it will be the reason why, as Nintendo accounts are "outside" of Xbox Live

2) They have parental control enabled for their account, which limits certain functions. This is assuming they're under the age of 18 and you've enabled this setting for their account.

3) Within the game, (in the same place where you found the "find friend" button), friend requests aren't set to display



4) One of you somehow had blocked the other. If either of you saw the friend request message, hitting the wrong button will either ignore or block the person who sent the friend request

5) You sent a friend request to another Switch player. This would explain why they didn't see the request, but it doesn't explain how you didn't see theirs, unless you also have a Playstation or PC account, or someone on those platforms is using the same name. (It happens, on Playstation my username was already taken when I signed up in 2013).

If I had to take a guess, its your Xbox account not allowing friends outside the Xbox Live network.

This is also an EA's help page for adding friends, I'm not sure if it would help, but here: https://help.ea.com/en/help/apex-legends/apex-legends/apex-legends-cross-play/

On the off chance that you did friend each other, check to make sure that they're not on your friends list. Sometimes when sending a friend request at the same time, (or you both at some point sent one to the other), games would see that Player 1 sent Player 2 a friend request, and that Player 2 sent Player 1 a friend request, and instead of notifying them of a friend request, it just sets them as friends.

Friending a player in-game shouldn't require you to have a PC account linked. (To me, "EA" accounts are PC/Steam accounts, while all the consoles are <platform> accounts, this gets confusing as all accounts are considered EA accounts when used in EA games)